Vietnam'spolitical development has entered an extraordinary, if indeterminate, phase.
Politics in Vietnam, long a predictable affair, are today characterized by a sense of …

Conventional wisdom emerging from China and other autocracies claims that single-party
legislatures and elections are mutually beneficial for citizens and autocrats. This line of …

Recent literature on “soft authoritarianism” has called into question the extent to which
policy, rather than personality and patronage, sets the direction of elite politics in the …

Why do voters in single-party regimes express support for the ruling party in such large
numbers? Scholars offer three sets of explanations: 1) Support is manipulated by regime …

For analysts of Vietnam'spolitics, the country'srepresentative politics have always been an
object of curiosity and controversy. Although the present chapter is the only one that deals …

The Central Committee (CC) of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) is widely regarded
as Vietnam's most important political institution. However, few studies have exclusively …

The May 2014 entry of a Chinese deep-water oil rig into Vietnamese waters deeply shocked
Vietnam. This yearend article chronicles the impact of the controversial action on (1) power …

Second, it also allows for the possibility that systems with competitive elections may fail to
generate democratic representation in practice. This is precisely the argument that informs …

This chapter analyzes the Vietnamese state and the institutional changes that have occurred
in the past. There has been significant progress in terms of both strengthening the …

Vietnam is a communist one-party regime in transition. With the implementation of doi moi,
the Communist Party of Vietnam replaced a centrally planned economy with a “socialist …